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RONDEAU (Ital. Rondo) , a structural form in poetry and (in the form of " rondo ") in music. In poetry the rondeau is a short metrical structure which in its perfect form consists of thirteen eight- or ten-syllabled verses divided into three strophes of unequal length, and knit together by two rhymes and a refrain. In Clement Marot's time the laws
" Ma foy, c'est fait de moy, car Isabeau M'a conjure de luy faire un Rondeau: Cela me met en une peine
Quoy treize vers, huit en eau, cinq en ease. Je luy ferois aussi-tot un bateau ! En voila cinq pourtant en un monceau : Faisons en huict, en invoquant Brodeau, En puis mettons, par quelque stratageme, Ma foy, c'est fait ! Si je pouvois encore de mon cerveau Tirer cinq vers, 1'ouvrage seroit beau; Mais cependant, je suis dedans l'onzieme, Et si je croy que je fais le douzieme En voila treize ajustez au niveau. Ma foy, c'est fait !" All forms of the rondeau, however, are alike in this, that the distinguishing metrical emphasis is achieved by a peculiar use of the refrain. Though we have a set of rondeaux in the Rolliad (written by Dr. Lawrence the friend of Burke , according to Edmund Gosse, who has given us an admirable essay upon exotic forms of verse), it was not till recent
bright and graceful as Voiture's own. Swinburne, who in his Century of Roundels was perhaps the first to make the refrain rhyme with the second verse of the first strophe, has brought the form into high poetry. In German, rondeaux have been composed with perfect correctness by Weckherlin, and with certain divergences from the French type by Gotz and Fischart; the German name for the form is rundum or ringel-gedicht.Although the origin of the retrain in all poetry was no doubt the improvisatore's need of a rest, a time in which to focus his forces and recover breath for future flights, the refrain has a distinct metrical value of its own; it knits the structure together, and so intensifies the emotional energy, as we see in the Border ballads
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spring from the use of the refrain, but from the too frequent recurrence of the rhymes in the strophesfor which there is no metrical necessity as in the case of the Petrarchan sonnet. The rondeau is, however, an inimitable instrument of gaiety and grace in the hands of a skilful poet.End of Article: RONDEAU (Ital. Rondo) If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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